Hi, The whole purpose of the flow: when movement is detected, or someone opens the door, turn on the light. If I keep moving, keep the light on. If I stop moving, after some time, turn off the light. With two relatively elegant flows and the Flow Event Bus and Timer apps, this should be possible. …

I’m not familiar with the timer app, I ucan se Chronograph, for several reasons. One is, that it provides great control over timers, such as: Start or restart timer Start or continue timer Is timer running Timers active are visible in app configuration, together with countdown time. In your case,…

I had the Chronograph first but I used it to trigger timers when movement starts. Your remark about triggering timers when movement stops makes sense. A reason to switch from Chronograph is that it would create the need to have more than two flows. This is where Timer comes in: it can trigger both …

I think that will solve it, but at the expense of another flow for zone inactivity. :slight_smile: One a zone is active, it won’t keep sending zone active triggers, whatever activity keeps happening. It will stay active quietly until movement stops. I’ve resigned to the fact that Homey will have f…

Indeed I made a mistake assuming that ZONE ACTIVE would continuously be triggered. But I can indeed see (now) that once a zone is active and I keep moving, it is not retriggered. This means that timers will run out and lights turn OFF. That is precisely what seemed to be happening in my initial flo…

Sit really, really still when experimenting :-). I’m assuming you did not just start tihe timer, but also turn the light off when the timer stops.

Hehe :slight_smile: The Timer App takes this burden by controlling ON/OFF states of the controlled devices. Saves one flow (if it works… :stuck_out_tongue: )

I just noticed the zone is inactive for … time trigger in the zone. That would eliminate the need for the Timer and have Homey do it?

Just found out that I had 2 zones “Hallway” with the same name but these were two zones in different floors. Once I fixed this by selecting the appropriate zone, I got the flows to work properly. Thanks for all your help @Edwin_D and @Caseda !!

Issue in one of: FLOW EVENT BUS -or- TIMER apps - help figuring this out

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Try reading up on this awesome topic someone already made some time ago, basics stay the same

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